archiving question

In Outlook on a PC, it will pop up a window stating that you have a lot of
old emails, "would you like to archive them now?" It then lets you archive
based on date.

Does Entourage have this same feature? I know it can archive, but can I
define the date(s) and can it automatically pop up a warning like Outlook
does?

Thx

matt
Thu Nov 17 14:01:46 CST 2005

Brian Donohue <briand@calmark-inc.com> wrote:

> In Outlook on a PC, it will pop up a window stating that you have a lot of
> old emails, "would you like to archive them now?" It then lets you archive
> based on date.
>
> Does Entourage have this same feature? I know it can archive, but can I
> define the date(s) and can it automatically pop up a warning like Outlook
> does?

You can certainly have Entourage pop up a periodic reminder (it's a
calendar program, remember?), and you can certainly archive and delete
all messages older than a certain date in a single easy move, so I guess
the answer would be Yes. m.


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Brian
Thu Nov 17 15:08:36 CST 2005

Heh, ok great. How?


:)





On 11/17/05 3:01 PM, in article 1h666ng.1kpijjcjo5j8kN%matt@tidbits.com,
"matt neuburg" <matt@tidbits.com> wrote:

> Brian Donohue <briand@calmark-inc.com> wrote:
>
>> In Outlook on a PC, it will pop up a window stating that you have a lot of
>> old emails, "would you like to archive them now?" It then lets you archive
>> based on date.
>>
>> Does Entourage have this same feature? I know it can archive, but can I
>> define the date(s) and can it automatically pop up a warning like Outlook
>> does?
>
> You can certainly have Entourage pop up a periodic reminder (it's a
> calendar program, remember?), and you can certainly archive and delete
> all messages older than a certain date in a single easy move, so I guess
> the answer would be Yes. m.
>

Brian
Thu Nov 17 15:10:37 CST 2005

By the way, the pop reminder feature I'm talking about from Outlook isn't a
calendar thing... it is it's own function.





On 11/17/05 3:01 PM, in article 1h666ng.1kpijjcjo5j8kN%matt@tidbits.com,
"matt neuburg" <matt@tidbits.com> wrote:

> Brian Donohue <briand@calmark-inc.com> wrote:
>
>> In Outlook on a PC, it will pop up a window stating that you have a lot of
>> old emails, "would you like to archive them now?" It then lets you archive
>> based on date.
>>
>> Does Entourage have this same feature? I know it can archive, but can I
>> define the date(s) and can it automatically pop up a warning like Outlook
>> does?
>
> You can certainly have Entourage pop up a periodic reminder (it's a
> calendar program, remember?), and you can certainly archive and delete
> all messages older than a certain date in a single easy move, so I guess
> the answer would be Yes. m.
>

kainewynd2[at]gmail
Thu Nov 17 19:30:28 CST 2005

And may I add, what an annoying feature it is. However, I've found the
easiest way to do an archive of your data is to just write an
Applescript (or shell script) and schedule it using the Applescript
feature in iCal (or cron). An example simple applescript is below:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
quit
end tell
do shell script "ditto /Users/$USER/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/
/Backup/Location"
delay 10

or shell script:
#!/bin/bash
ditto /Users/$USER/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/ /Backup/Location

I didn't double check those scripts so you'll want to make sure that
works.

Mike


Schedule something like that and you should be golden.


Brian Donohue wrote:
> By the way, the pop reminder feature I'm talking about from Outlook isn't a
> calendar thing... it is it's own function.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11/17/05 3:01 PM, in article 1h666ng.1kpijjcjo5j8kN%matt@tidbits.com,
> "matt neuburg" <matt@tidbits.com> wrote:
>
> > Brian Donohue <briand@calmark-inc.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In Outlook on a PC, it will pop up a window stating that you have a lot of
> >> old emails, "would you like to archive them now?" It then lets you archive
> >> based on date.
> >>
> >> Does Entourage have this same feature? I know it can archive, but can I
> >> define the date(s) and can it automatically pop up a warning like Outlook
> >> does?
> >
> > You can certainly have Entourage pop up a periodic reminder (it's a
> > calendar program, remember?), and you can certainly archive and delete
> > all messages older than a certain date in a single easy move, so I guess
> > the answer would be Yes. m.
> >

Brian
Fri Nov 18 13:48:20 CST 2005

Heh, I agree it can get annoying sometimes. I believe you can turn it off in
Outlook though.

Anyway, thanks for the script ideas :)








On 11/17/05 8:30 PM, in article
1132277428.729056.84460@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,
"kainewynd2[at]gmail.com" <kainewynd2@gmail.com> wrote:

> And may I add, what an annoying feature it is. However, I've found the
> easiest way to do an archive of your data is to just write an
> Applescript (or shell script) and schedule it using the Applescript
> feature in iCal (or cron). An example simple applescript is below:
>
> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
> quit
> end tell
> do shell script "ditto /Users/$USER/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/
> /Backup/Location"
> delay 10
>
> or shell script:
> #!/bin/bash
> ditto /Users/$USER/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/ /Backup/Location
>
> I didn't double check those scripts so you'll want to make sure that
> works.
>
> Mike
>
>
> Schedule something like that and you should be golden.
>
>
> Brian Donohue wrote:
>> By the way, the pop reminder feature I'm talking about from Outlook isn't a
>> calendar thing... it is it's own function.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/17/05 3:01 PM, in article 1h666ng.1kpijjcjo5j8kN%matt@tidbits.com,
>> "matt neuburg" <matt@tidbits.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Brian Donohue <briand@calmark-inc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In Outlook on a PC, it will pop up a window stating that you have a lot of
>>>> old emails, "would you like to archive them now?" It then lets you archive
>>>> based on date.
>>>>
>>>> Does Entourage have this same feature? I know it can archive, but can I
>>>> define the date(s) and can it automatically pop up a warning like Outlook
>>>> does?
>>>
>>> You can certainly have Entourage pop up a periodic reminder (it's a
>>> calendar program, remember?), and you can certainly archive and delete
>>> all messages older than a certain date in a single easy move, so I guess
>>> the answer would be Yes. m.
>>>
>